Word: tumor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...once a tumor spreads beyond a certain point--breast cancer after it has spread to the lymph nodes, for example--the cure rate decreases dramatically...
Glicklich contends that three of the doctors who treated her--Dr. Alan R. Spivack, an assistant University Health Services (UHS) surgeon: Dr. Jennifer Jones of UHS; and Dr. Joan Golub, a local private physician--misdiagnosed her cancerous tumor, and she is suing them for negligence...
Glicklich is suing Spievack and Dr. Jennifer Jones of UHS and Dr. Joan Golub, her private physician, for alleged failure to diagnose a cancerous tumor. She contends her doctors led her to believe she was suffering from noncancerous cysts and did not advise her to have a biopsy...
When Glicklich finally had a biopsy in July, 1979--three months after seeing Spievack and 11 months after she first noticed a lump in her right breast -the tumor had grown from one to ten centimeters and was then inoperable, her attorney said...
...Norman Sadowsky, Chief of Radiology at Faulkner Hospital, said yesterday it is impossible to tell whether removing the tumor earlier could have saved Glicklich's life...